Technologies for Learning/Education (Not available)

I am happy to supervise projects that look at the use of technologies for learning in formal or informal learning contexts. I’m an expert on mobile learning, collaborative learning and enabling technologies to deal with learning barriers.

Distributed lag modelling for environmental applications

It is established that exposure to poor air quality and high temperatures impact human health, in particular the respiratory system and cardiovascular system. But how are such connections and hypothesis formed and demonstrated? This project will explore distributed lag (DL) modelling. DL modelling is an established means to quantify exposure in terms of outcomes for … Read more

Simulating Populations and their use of Language in Cooperation

Individuals in a species (esp. humans) may cooperate and they may communicate. Recent decades have seen quite a lot of efforts to use computational simulation — so-called individual/agent-based modelling — to investigate what cooperation is , and how communication factors into it, striving to fit this into a general picture of varying levels of survival … Read more

Reinforcement Learning with simple game

There is a traditional ‘optimal’ way to play the game of ‘tic tac toe’ — the way defined by applying the so-called ‘minimax’ algorithm (Chap 5 Russell & Norvig ‘Artif. Intelligence: a Modern Approach’ [R&N]) . An area in of application of ‘Markov Decision Processes’ and ‘Reinforcement Learning’ (Chap 22 [R&N], Chap 13 Mackworth & … Read more

NLP Teaching Algorithm related

My teaching and research relate to natural language processing and machine learning. There’s code I have developed for algorithms relating to this, some traditional and some more novel. There is scope for projects relating to this pre-existing code and algorithms that is not necessarily related to improving the bottom-line performance of these algorithms, but more … Read more

Computational Treatment of Historical Sound Changes

BRIEFLY: I am quite interested in ‘sound shifts’ that apparently systematically relate languages which have common ancestry and there are possibilities to implement tools to assist in the presentation/verification of data that scholars have over the years assembled to attest to these sound shifts AT GREATER LENGTH: Sometime during the 19th century it was observed … Read more